Developing Your Intuition: A Guide to Reflective Practice

Bringing It All Together

Reflective practices are what you might call whole-brain activities. They are different from analytical practices in that they draw on and help to develop a person’s intuition. Analytical activities are what were once called left-brain activities. (Because magnetic resonance imaging has challenged the assumption that this kind of thinking has a specific location in the brain, it’s now sometimes referred to as L-mode thinking.) When managers mistrust their intuition, it’s generally because their analytical, or L-mode, approach is rejecting it. Because they can’t articulate it or touch it or count it or name it, they don’t ...